What books have you read twice?

I take most of my books to Oxfam, the PDSA or Scope once I've read them but my very favourites I keep and I have read these more than once:

I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
Driving in the Dark and Stolen (Deborah Moggach)
The Accidental Tourist, St Maybe, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel (Daphne du Maurier)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Orchard on Fire (Shena Mackay)
All Anita Brookner books
The Secret Self - Short Stories by Women

and many more.

This could take a while! Austen, Dickens, Mary Stewart, Georgette Heyer, Dorothy L Sayers, McCall Smith (Mma Ramotswe, Scotland Street), J D Robb, Pat McIntosh (Gill Cunningham series), Maeve Binchey, the Sister Fidelma series, Ian Rankin, and so many more. I too am a fast reader and love going back to books I've enjoyed - they are truly old friends. I read the first chapter of 'Gone with the Wind' and was so fed up with Scarlett that I put the book away and I have never gone back to it or seen the film. Oh, all the Christies and Ngaio Marsh too.

I'm not diverting the thread honest but I'm wondering if any of you book lovers has an inkling about this book which was recommended to me when I was in Sicily. I know the name is On Proserpine's Isle and the author 's first name is Marietta . I couldn't read what they had written for the surname.
I can't add to this thread about books I read twice because I only read twice by accident either I haven't made a note of the title or it's a reprint with a name change. In the US I've pounced on books by a favourite author only to find that they publish in the US with a different title.

Harry Potter all seven of them. back to back through twice. several times.

Little Women.
Pride and Prejudice

Planning to read both of these again soon now I have reading glasses as they were cheap copies with small print.

Just found this thread and had to add the Alice Munro stories. There aren't that many but they are so good.
Margaret Atwood of course- early ones. I have problems with the Oryx and Crake series.
Always preferred Alice Through the Looking Glass to A in Wonderland and still do.
I recently re-read The Alexandrian Quartet by Lawrence Durrell- I adored this when i was 19- not so sure now.

Thanks gammon will give Maggie O'Farrell a try

What an amazing discussion. Am off to the library this week to try get some of these out. Some I've read before but so long ago I could definitely do with a re-read. I'd love to reread To Kill a Mockingbird before reading the new one.
tinaf1 I really enjoy Maggie O'Farrell's books which are sort of similar in style to Maeve Binchy - I love her books too. Otherwise, on the other end of the scale the other Irish woman who writes - oh, what's her name, she's famous! - Lucy O'Sullivan is getting Married etc. grr- if I remember I'll post again.
suzieq Ditto for What the Ladybird Heard! Many many times!

Recently, What the Ladybird Heard - many times
As a child, Black Beauty, Ballet Shoes, Bobsey Twins
I had a copy of novel about a woman in the U.S. who upped sticks and left her family when she received a small inheritance, to go off and buy a smallholding. It would come out when I too felt the urge to disappear. A friend enjoyed it so much, she hung onto it to read it again and it vanished into her huge collection. Don't remember the name or author!

Going off thread here but I really miss Maeve Binchy's books can anyone recommend any other authors like her.Have read Little Women once as youngster then as "grown up " still a favourite

I have reread Stephen King many times, have read everything he's ever written he's a genius but such a weird mind. Jane Eyre lots of times the first time I read it I was about 10 and was terrified, can't stand Jane Austen hardly finished some of hers once and that was only because I had to in school, so boring! All of Phillipa Gregory's series about the Tudors always find details I missed, am fascinated by this period in history. Also Topsy and Tim and Blackberry Farm first to my children and again to my grandchildren, all original books some of which are now out of print. My absolute favourites are the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent Dyer

Lots of books I re-read as "comfort" books, usually humorous. I love Diary of a Nobody, Three men in a Boat, (and on the Bummel) Damon Runyon stories, Pickwick papers.
I also re-read Dr. Zhivago as the first time I kept getting the russian names mixed up.

I've re-read Gerald Durrell's ' My Family and Other Animals' (and the others in the series) so many times they've fallen apart.
Luckily they've been republished so I'm buying them again.

Truly unashamed laugh out loud nostalgia.

The two Mrs Grenvilles I have read this several times and so has my daughter

Yes, I suppose I do reread some books again years later as original post said. When I have completely forgotten them or if they are a reading group choice. But my comfort reads are the ones I turn to time and time again.

Glad someone's as adept at the technology as me.

The books I reread tend to be my 'comfort' reads. Things like Jane Austen and Mapp and Lucia. Otherwise I prefer a new reading discovery. My DH is continually rereading his books, and as some of these are thriller types iI find that hard to understand. If there is a new volume of a series out like the Samson Sharlake series he will start at number 1 before he reads the new one!

Forgot to mention all the books I had to teach, including, of course, To Kill a Mockingbird.

All of Jane Austen many times. They are a kind of comfort blanket for me. George Eliot, Middlemarch; Lord of the Rings, once for myself and again with my DSs; Wind in the Willows, ditto. And quite a few books I had to read for my degree, some of which I'd rather not remember, eg the more abstruse novels of Henry James, although I enjoy The Portrait of a Lady.

Ooops sorry about the postings, I must have held my finger down too long and I don't know how to delete the copies.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.

A book has to be really good for me to reread it as there are so many other interesting books around just waiting for a viewing. My tastes lean towards historical in all it's intriguing disguises, any time period will do as long as it's well written and believable, even futuristic.
I have reread Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' just love the 'manners' and the language and of course Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' series is fascinating. No doubt most people have read one or other of these.

A more recent and less well known read has been 'The Belle Fields' by Lora Adams as mentioned above by Beady. I also found the historical content to be very realistic and appealing.

One of my all time favorites is the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, also less well known but absolutely riveting. It's portrayal of prehistoric times is wonderful and so believable. I will read this again and again.Sometimes the descriptive passages can be a bit of a slog but well worth persevering.

I've read all these at least three times each. Can highly recommend all of them.